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BALLAST WATER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDING LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS 1998 1998 No. 143 - REG 4

Exempt ships (Act, s 3)
4. (1) For the definition of exempt ship in section 3 of the Act, the following are declared to be exempt ships:

(a)
a ship belonging to the naval, military or air forces of Australia or a foreign country (other than a ship engaged in trade or carrying goods under freight or charter);

(b)
a ship belonging to, or requisitioned or chartered by, the Commonwealth or the government of a foreign country, and engaged only in carrying members of, or goods intended for the use of, the naval, military or air forces of Australia or that country;

(c)
a ship belonging to the Commonwealth, or a State or Territory, or a public authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory (except a ship engaged in trade, or carrying goods under freight or charter);

(d)
a ship belonging to a religious missionary society;

(e)
a sailing training ship operated by a non-profit organisation for the benefit of young people;

(f)
a ship less than 50 metres in tonnage length.

(2)
In paragraph (1) (f):

"tonnage length" of a ship means the length of the ship for the Load Line Convention (that is, the Convention, as in force for Australia at the commencement of this regulation, defined in section 187A of the Navigation Act 1912 and set out in Schedule 4 to that Act).
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